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Belief's Opposing Force - Part 6
Well my friends it's been a little over a week since I posted Part 5 of this series. As I mentioned, a lot of what I have presented was taken from the teachings of Andrew Wommack. Andrew speaks on this topic of unbelief in several of his messages and I have heard it to the point where I honestly believe that God has now spoken it to me. And this series, was basically a compilation of the truths that I have gained, articulated in the way I have received them.
I am rather short on time for today and honestly don't feel compelled to try and express my own limited knowledge on the subject of prayer and fasting. As you well know, both of those subjects are quite broad, to say the least, and I could spend months attempting to compile an an informative post. So in light of that fact, I have opted to present a short audio clip from Andrew himself as he speaks on this subject as it applies to the topic of unbelief. Keep in mind that what you will hear is only a ten minute clip taken from an audio message which in it's entirety is one hour and eighteen minutes long. Additionally, that audio message is only one of a six part series entitled "You've Already Got It". Should you desire to hear the entire series, which I highly recommend, you will find that information by following the above link.
In conclusion, I want to first of all say thank you to those of you who have participated by means of comments and discussion. Your added input and viewpoints I consider to be highly valuable.
And, I would like to say that I pray that this series had helped at least one person to understand that God wants more than anything to see you whole and healed, healthy and prosperous. Nothing missing and nothing broken. In fact, He has already commanded those blessings into your life and they do already exist in the realm of the Spirit.
Faith is the avenue through which that spiritual reality manifests into the natural. Not great big faith, but pure faith. Faith that is not tainted by unbelief. You have been given the measure of faith already. It is one of the fruits of the spirit and within you is the same exact faith that raised our Lord Jesus from the dead. That's all the faith you will ever need, I assure you.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
So the key, which has been the point of this entire series, is not to pray for, or ask for, or try to build a greater faith, yet the answer is simply to reduce the level of unbelief. Reduce the force that is in direct opposition to your faith and then the faith that you already have will be able to work more freely in your lives. It's really that simple.
So now I leave you with this brief audio message and I pray that your roots continue to grow down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love!
Michael
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| December 12, 2008 |
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| Great way to end this topic! All I can say is that for me my belief or belief system does indeed affect my faith. See I knew God could heal, I was miraculously healed of paralysis while I was still laying on a gurney in a trauma room when my Daddy laid hands on me and prayed for me after a car accident. I walked out of that hospital 3 days later with so many fractures they didn't know how I was mobile but I was! Praise God for his goodness! The trauma surgeon who I knew asked me to set up a meeting with my father, my father lead him to the Lord at that meeting and mentored him in Bible study. That trauma surgeon prays now for each of his patients as they enter under his care...and he is a Godly man...how awesome is that story...SO...how did healing escape me when I was diagnosed with RA? For me it was simple now to look back on BUT I had forgotten how much God loved me...I had developed a belief system that I was not worthy, that somehow I deserved this...by sin, just making bad decisions etc., BUT that is NOT true! Gods says all of his children are worthy...not because we deserve it but because of Christs sacrifice on the cross...For me that was my issue, and once a brother in Christ began to minister me on Gods love for me then my faith was able once again to shoot up propelling me to grap ahold of what was already mine. What has it been now Michael 4 months that I have walked around healed of RA...Not only that guys one of the most important things besides not hurting was getting my energy back, I lived a life in bed from the fatigue, seriously all I could do was work and occasionally cook a nice homemade meal for my kids and I LOVE to cook...now seriously I can run circles around my kids...GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME! We just have to really get to know Him sometimes on a new level you know...it is just up to us what we are willing to fight for in life...I'm gonna take every inch I can for Him... |
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| December 12, 2008 |
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I'm at the Library, can't hear the Audio, don't got a earphone........but will get one!
Lori, I like your attitude. You were able to receive your healing by meditating on The Goodness of God, and how much He Loves you!
Let me bounce this off Y'all, is it True and in line with God's word?
We are Healed by GRACE, through faith, not by works, lest any one should boast!
Please respond, I've been meditating on it for a while.
What led me up to this is a result of a lot of teaching I received about healthy life styles of nutrition and jucing diets, and fastings and cleansings.....etc.....etc.....etc..... and the more I learned, the more I realised that I am fearfully and wonderously made, and I did'nt think I could get it all right, and abandoned some good habits I had started to form and now am trying to regain some ground, but having my TRUST in God and not my diet and life-style for walking in health.
Back to God Is Good. How do you balance Jesus is Lord of all ? When, as Craig wrote,"bad things happen to good people"?
I cannot "see" it as a ying-yang picture with good forces opposing bad forces as Jesus is Lord, they don't go together. Either Jesus is Lord of ALL, or He is not Lord at all, is how I've heard it put.
The more I meditate on the subject, the more I like what Craig said about starting with the belief, the premise, the fact, that God is Good, and then pray for the understanding. The more I submit to That Fact, and open myself to the understanding, the more I see how utterly complex and intertwined and mind boggling it is, and you just entered a new facet to it with this blog with the belief of the village playing a part in the ability for me to receive from God. But in all, I rest in the fact that The judgements of God are perfect, He is the author and finisher of my faith. And even when bad stuff happens to (seemingly) good people, He is still Good, and He is still Lord of ALL.
Michael, I hope I did not stray to far from your blog topic. Thank you in advance for your grace.
I sign off with hope the new understandings I have received will help me stay out of the ditches !
Grace and Peace, Tom |
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| December 12, 2008 |
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Hi Tom!
It's good to hear from you again my friend. Thanks so much for the great comments and insight. I'll be back around later this weekend to read a little more slowly what you have written. That's good stuff.
And please, do not worry about getting too far off topic. One thought triggers another and somehow that Wonderful Spirit which we commonly share is able to tie it all together!
"Healed by Grace through faith"
I like it! And it rings quite true.
I used to go by the limited definition of grace as being God's unmerited favor. While I still see that as being part of the meaning I have come to further understand it as "God's enabling power working within us." Grace is power. "My grace is sufficient for thee", or in other words, "My power is sufficient for thee!
I heard a good message on that subject not too long ago from Duane Sheriff. Do you know of him?
Anyway Tom, I have killed my lunch hour playing around with Movie Maker and now I have to earn my keep.
Thanks again and I hope all is well with you and yours!
Later. |
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| December 13, 2008 |
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Hey Tom,
I tried to respond to you yesterday, had it all written and submitted it and boom it was gone...so here we go again...
Alright you pose a great question...
Lori, I like your attitude. You were able to receive your healing by meditating on The Goodness of God, and how much He Loves you!
Let me bounce this off Y'all, is it True and in line with God's word?
We are Healed by GRACE, through faith, not by works, lest any one should boast!
Let me expand on what I said here...
I had developed a belief system that I was not worthy, that somehow I deserved this...by sin, just making bad decisions etc., BUT that is NOT true! Gods says all of his children are worthy...not because we deserve it but because of Christs sacrifice on the cross...For me that was my issue, and once a brother in Christ began to minister me on Gods love for me then my faith was able once again to shoot up propelling me to grasp hold of what was already mine.
Please note first of all I agree with you, it was Christs sacrifice on the cross that had already provided healing for me....I also gave an example of how I had received miraculous healing before...so my question to God, and my search began when for some reason I could not grab hold of it this time...I was a woman on a mission because I knew it was there for me, I just didn't know how to obtain it...Now, isn't that the place that so many of us find ourselves in....each of us has to really look into our heart and seek out what the block is...is it that your not believing God for miracles of today? do you question if God can heal? Are works dead to you? See if the answer is yes to any of those you need to deal with THAT first or you may never obtain a miraculous healing...but that was not my issue....but yet there was a block...One day out of the blue when someone started to minister to me on how much the Lord loved me and I found myself speechless and weeping...Wow, I knew that was something I needed to deal with...just the acceptance of His love for me....I had forgotten really...and I had to bring to my remembrance His love for me...See I didn't doubt that God could, I doubted that he WOULD and there is a huge difference there...so if you go to the parable of the seed that is sown in a garden...I had lots of good stuff sewn in my life but I also had some weeds (doctrines and beliefs that were not scriptural), when I began to talk to this brother in Christ it was like Gods hand came down and started to pull my weeds up...those weeds were chocking out the reality of Gods word to me...once they were gone then bam the good stuff grew, and it grew, and it grew, it was probably a month later when I was propelled enough to finally grab hold of my healing...you can read my story on my blog I have it posted in two parts....called "The Hope we are called to"...See Tom this was not about my "works" (good deeds) or how deserved I was...it was just over the mere fact God does provide healing for his children...and I knew that if He did it for me once He could certainly do it again...for that matter other people, He is no respecter of persons...
OK, so why did I tell this story? To support what Michael said right here...
So the key, which has been the point of this entire series, is not to pray for, or ask for, or try to build a greater faith, yet the answer is simply to reduce the level of unbelief. Reduce the force that is in direct opposition to your faith and then the faith that you already have will be able to work more freely in your lives. It's really that simple.
I couldn't agree more with what Michael says here and it really is a different concept than what most people believe....and the issue lots of times is NOT our faith but our belief system that chokes out that faith...I hope that makes sense to you more...and let me just say this...Christ also said without works faith is dead in fact in the amplified it says this: So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead)...See that is right where I found myself, destitute of power.... and it took some deeds and actions to bring that faith alive...
Tom, many times I liken healing to salvation, I believe on the Cross God offered those both to us at the same time...but if you look at this from a salvation experience...God tells us we have to believe in our HEARTS on Jesus Christ in order to receive salvation...well, lots of people believe Jesus walked this earth but they do not believe in their hearts he died to save THEM...are those people saved? Not according to scripture...to me healing has the same issues...
OK, this is long enough...if you have other questions I'll be glad to answer...and I hope that commentary helps! In Him, Lori
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